Satire a point of honor. Contributions to law and contemporary history, so the title of the latest book by Dr. Albrecht Gotz von Olenhusen collection of essays is media publishing house and published law in Munich. Their author is a lawyer in Freiburg i.br., lecturer of the Heinrich Heine University of Dusseldorf and member of the Board of the Landesanstalt fur Baden-Wurttemberg communications, and author of numerous books and essays. The striking and exciting to the Olenhusen’schen Justizburlesken is the fact that they are taken from the Repertoire of actual legal cases, the author as one of the most experienced and most accomplished German media lawyer even has experienced. To the lawyer understands it brilliantly to play these incidents, to explain and to comment on a times amused, even biting wink. Selected essay topics include for example the processes of the filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl against critical reconnaissance of their NAZI past (aunt Leni and her Gypsy”). This case illustrates that at the same time Entanglement of art and NAZI barbarity and the non management & non processing associated individual art sheep fender like Riefenstahl with one’s own role in the Third Reich.
In films such as lowland”imprisoned Sinti and Roma were brought back seconded and afterwards again there as extras from concentration camps, to get operations that allegedly take place went the famous Director without knowledge & wool into certain death. “” Grotesques to one and the same poster twice seizing belong to the other linguistically brilliantly written essays (“go learning to the Bundeswehr – slaughter”), the legal fate of the Krankfeiern brochure paths to knowledge, wealth “, about the confrontation of a mystery author and SWR editor with his employer due to a supposed Schlusselromans, the case of the former Telekom Chief Ron Sommer against the Wirtschaftswoche, the struggle for the freedom of the penguins up to the most recently contested by alleged Plagiatfall Tannod”. As a defender in the Tannod process against Andrea Maria Schenkel (Edition Nautilus) the author of the book showed so many legal proceedings can be as grotesque. Factum clarum jus nebulosum in an essay entitled”the English satirist introduces A.P. Herbert. Herbert’s unique position as a writer and politician in England as Gotz von Olenhusen from the fact could be derived, that he with leading protagonists like Hilaire Belloc, H.G. Wells, Arnold Bennet, John Galsworthy and Rudyard Kipling was a friend, with the dreaded G.B.. Shaw successfully dispute to the spelling reform fought off and not only with the most important English lawyers, but also with politicians such as Sir Robert Menzies, Stanley Baldwin, Winston Churchill or Edward Heath was on familiar and friendly foot. An in-depth analysis of duels, Entehrungen and symbolic capital concludes in the media ‘. ” Even though the book was written by a lawyer and legal historian, also the legal layman may be not deterred, because the essays are not articles, but satirischeZeugnisse one literarily gifted zoologists political and juridical relations of domination.